Lights control using Makerfabs MaTouch ESP32 Rotary

hello it's been a while since the last video I've been uh quite busy and didn't have much free time but here I am back again and today I have something interesting for you makeer FBS company reach out to me and asked if I wanted to try their new product and I said sure give me give me you are currently looking at maker Fabs ma touch rotary development board this is of course an esp32 product that that you can program and use for whatever you want unlike uh most development boards that usually require a case or similar this product already comes uh uh in this plastic enclosure with this nice part making the installation of this product much easier you need just hole to install this in something and product itself is very elegant of course my example helped originally a product came with this example with this nasty text and some gauges I think this uh this example is U made using lvgl Library which I don't like like a lot but that is another story so as soon I I opened the box I got a few ideas uh many times I received the comments that the boards I use are too small to use in car or in a similar places and very often that is true but here this but here this project have a really nice really decent size and uh it can be used for speedometer or similar applications however my example today has nothing to do with cars my idea was to replace these boring switches with something more elegant so here it is maker Fabs Mi I touch what is unique is Big display 480 by 480 next we have this rotary encoder here I'm using to set amount of my light and there is also builtin push button so I'm using it to turn my light on or off but if this is not enough we can also have this touch screen which can also be used for something sorry not for something it is used for to dial also um value here and on this side we have clock date seconds and here we can see that it is Monday this is just demonstration example if we want real if we want to use this in uh like for real and I will use this I will need connect few additional modules for clock I will need to attach real time clock or use um y5 to get right data which I don't like anymore I like to use realtime clock chip and for setting amount of uh light to turn off and on light let me see if [Music] I for that I will need some kind of relay but not those me me but not those mechanical relays because they are slow I think uh this solid state relay will work but I still still haven't got haven't tested it yet this board don't have uh too much additional gpio pins so it have only these two connectors and in each connector you have two pins and ground and VCC and usually these connectors are used for I Square C modules but these spins can also be used for solid States for LEDs for any it is normal GP open here we have USB C port for programming and here are reset and Flash buttons like always I'm using Arduino ID to program this I love this clicky sound only problem I have with this was that uh in uh examples maker FBS provided there there was only example which use lvgl library and example which which is using Arduino gfix library and I was unable to use that Library without flickering I sent few mails I also try to contact the maker of Arduino gfix library but he haven't respond on my mails so I did a little trick right now I'm using two libraries uh I'm using tspi library to drove in Sprite buffer and I'm using Arduino gfix library to to push that Sprite to display and that's it code for this is free I will put it in in description so if you want to build this if you want to use this for something similar this code will also probably work on this maker Fabs board which I presented you couple weeks ago so feel free to use it I think this look nice and that's that's it for this week if you plan to use this uh please also like my video Share my video if you want you can buy me a coffee and if you are new here please subscribe because I'm trying to reach 100,000 subscribers and my plan is to reach that goal in two years so every new subscriber makes me happy I hope you like my design and that's it goodbye have a nice day

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 22 2023